Onur Küçük announced the second release candidate of the Turkish Pardus Linux 2009: "The International CD of RC2, containing 11 languages to choose from, is also available in FTP. The new release contains many bugfixes and enhancements after the RC

A. J. Venter has announced the availability of Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.2, a free African GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware with significant inspiration from the BSD architectures: "It is my pleasure to announce that Kongoni version 1.12.2, code-named Nietzsche, has been

A new front has opened in the war between Open Source and Proprietary software proponents. And it's being fought on the e-governance turf

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News / Web Happenings: - What a bizarre incident - If you're still running a BETA build, make sure you update to RC now.General / Neat Stuff:Development: - Interesting that last year TechEd sold out in three weeks.. this year

After using a Telecom XT SIM card that was sent to me for review I finally decided to move my personal account from their CDMA network to the new XT Network. A couple of reasons why I did the move:

New Zealand's newest mobile network, , finally coming into the public view with a prime time ad with of The Flight of the Conchords fame. As expected there's a , and here is the ad:

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The New Zealand government's Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection warns that the latest MS ActiveX Video Control vulnerability is being actively (NPI) in the wild. Here's how to mitigate the vulnerability.

Gary Turner is a twenty-year veteran of the UK accounting software industry and leaves Microsoft UK to take up his post with Xero in August.

I just had a laugh now when I read about his experience with , a New Zealand courier company:Yes, I called their local offices to listen myself and they say "You called us outside our office hours. To book an

I am a member of the and I have just been reading its internal mailing list about the frightening possibility of Internet filtering coming to New Zealand, courtesy of our .There's a good FAQ on out there and I will

The competition for Microsoft just heated up considerably, with the Google announcing that it intends to in the second half of next year. Google Chrome OS is the somewhat unimaginative name, and it's supposed to be fast, simple and secure."It

News / Web Happenings: - Looks like MS may be about to announce 'Office Web'FAIL of the week:

A few months back I posted that Firefox was the #1 browser here on for the first ever, with Microsoft Internet Explorer coming second.Of course I expected a bigger number of Firefox (and other browsers) users because of the more

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